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Applicant of the Week: 352 Media

One entrepreneur's college start-up was never expected to expand past the walls of his frat house. Now it is doing business with Microsoft and other large co...  Read story

Innovation: A New Way to Fight Germs

Sharklet Technologies' Tony Brennan invented a sharkskin-like pattern that resists microbes.  Read story

Who's Wired for the Bottom Line?

Here are four ways you can separate the money wasters from the money makers to ensure your company maintains a healthy bottom line.  Read story

Small Businesses to Get Boost from Retail Sales

Strong car sales suggested smaller firms in other industries could see a sales boost in the near future.  Read story

The Believer

Flat broke at the age of 21, Joe Cirulli made a list of 10 things he wanted to accomplish in life. One by one, he pulled them off -- and built a health and...  Read story

Analysis: What a Housing Bust Means for Business

August 31, 2005 --In a speech Sunday, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that the booming housing market was headed for a near-t...  Read story

Virtual Classrooms, Actual Education

For a straightforward concept, e-learning has a lot of aliases: distance learning, online education, computer-based training, and "the virtual classroom,"...  Read story

Designer Foods

Three innovative start-ups that have developed designer foods.  Read story

Pricing and Fairness: Do Your Customers Assume You Are Gouging Them?

In trying to assess consumer attitudes towards pricing, marketing professor Lisa Bolton and two other researchers conducted experiments designed to measure w...  Read story

Returns: Buy Now, Pay Later

Just because you want your company to have an IPO doesn't mean you should invest in someone else's. Unless you do it like this.  Read story

A Fisherman Who Never Goes To Sea

Mike Sipe began experimenting with tilapia an African freshwater food fish, after earning a degree in agriculture from the University of Florida in 1968. ...  Read story

Fed Intent on More Rate Increases

July 21, 2005 --Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan appeared before a Senate subcommittee Thursday, repeating his intention to continu...  Read story

Shoplifting's Effect on Sales Has Waned

Dec. 2, 2005 --The holiday shopping season<...  Read story

The Nightmare of Too Little Sleep

Blame the BlackBerry, blame the boss, blame the kids. A look at how busy professionals cope.  Read story

Star Wars, Inc.

Whether it's ever even deployed, the space shield is already a $19-billion growth industry  Read story

Florida Proposes $75 Million for Startups

Gov. Jeb Bush wants the state to promote entrepreneurship and rely less on tourism.  Read story

Housing Sales Up In August

Sept. 26, 2005 --Low interest rates and continued job growth pushed existing home prices to all-time highs last month, with total sales re...  Read story

Hot Tip: Hole Up at Home

Not only did Michael Knowles start his security guard staffing company in the guest room of his house in Tallahassee, Fla., but he didn't relocate it to l...  Read story

Grand Plans

Shoestring start-ups: seven fast-growing companies that were started for $1,000 or less, and tactics to borrow for your own start-up.  Read story

Main Street VCs

A new breed of venture capital, coming soon to a town near you.  Read story

Making Room At The Top

Lynn Bignell and Janet Tweed wanted to grow their personal-service firm beyond the time and talent they'd brought to the business. They found they had to giv...  Read story

The 10 Commmandments of Hypergrowth

The secret to fast growth is in planning and training, but it's dangerous too.  Read story

Would You Buy a Chinese Car from This Man?

Malcom Bricklin is on a quest to revolutionize the auto industry at 14,845 words per hour.  Read story

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